White House economic czar Gary Cohn pretended to have a bad phone connection in order to end a call with President Trump earlier this month, a Democratic senator said Wednesday.

Sen. Tom Carper of Delaware told CNN that Cohn was having a discussion with Democratic senators about tax reform when the President phoned in while traveling in Asia.

White House economic adviser Gary Cohn (r.) lied about having a bad phone connection with Trump in order to get the President off the phone, according to Sen. Tom Carper.

(Michael Sohn/AP)

“Fifteen minutes later, the President is still talking,” Carper recalled.

“And I said to Gary, it was a room where we're all sitting around this big table, and I said, ‘Gary, why don't you do this, just take ... your cellphone back and just say, ‘Mr. President, you're brilliant! But we're losing contact, and I think we're going to lose you now, so goodbye.’”